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Bodies, Stereotypes, and Reproduction: Black Migrants Experiencing Obstetric Violence and Racism in Portugal 身体，刻板印象和生殖：黑人移民在葡萄牙经历产科暴力和种族主义

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-06-24 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70094

Catarina Barata, Chiara Pussetti

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Anthropology and Evocative Significance: Art, Sport, and Aesthetics 人类学与唤起意义：艺术、运动与美学

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70095

Joshua D. Rubin

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Perfecting Exit: The Politics of Quitting Among Migrant Care Workers in the United States 完善退出：美国移民护工的退出政治

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70097

Cati Coe

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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France 债券，界限和边界：在法国南部与未经授权的移民制作款待

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-06-02 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70092

Céline Eschenbrenner

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The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank 新犹太牧羊人：约旦河西岸被占领地区的土地掠夺与赎回

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70083

Irus Braverman

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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia 采矿合法化：黄金、商品化和哥伦比亚法律的日常执行

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-05-27 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70086

Jesse Jonkman

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Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational 作为学术的批判性研究空间：作为实验、想象和关系工具的民族志实验室

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70089

Fiona P. McDonald

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Epistemania! (On the Very Idea of “Knowledge Production”) Epistemania !（论“知识生产”的概念本身）

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70081

Cameron Hu

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It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution 探戈需要两个人：构建人类进化综合解释的多元主义解释

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-05-29 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70090

Lumila Paula Menéndez, Sophie Veigl

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Living the End of Beauty: Threatened Landscapes and the Politics of Aesthetic Emotions 生活在美的尽头：受威胁的风景与审美情感的政治

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American Anthropologist Pub Date : 2026-08-17 Epub Date: 2026-07-13 DOI: 10.1111/aman.70102

Sébastien Roux, Jean Chamel

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